TriBeCaStan

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TriBeCaStan is an American world music band from New York, New York.[1] The band was co-founded by multi-instrumentalists John Kruth and Jeff Greene[2] and includes baritone sax player Claire Daly, multi-reedist Matt Darriau of The Klezmatics, drummer Todd Isler and guitarist Scott Metzger, who has played with Ween and Gov't Mule.[3] Other musicians who have been known to play with the band include Boris Kinberg, Kenny Margolis, Chris Morrow, Ray Peterson, John Turner, Jim Clouse, Dave Dreiwitz and Steve Turre.[4] Referred to as 'genre-bending' by The New York Times[5] and Alarm Magazine[6] the band has been known to defy musical genre description, with several publications describing their music as fusing avant-garde jazz, klezmer, Balkan, Indian, Middle Eastern, Afghani folk, Afrofunk, Chinese Traditional Music, African, Latin Jazz and surf-rock[7][6][2] and has been compared to the British world music band 3 Mustaphas 3 by All Music Guide.

Discography

The cover for their album New Deli was created by Cal Schenkel.[8]

Regarding the release of their album New Songs from the Old Country, journalist Richard Gehr called it "the fourth (and best) album by a band specializing in making old and foreign music new again."[9]

Year Album title Label
2009 Strange Cousin Evergreene
2010 5-Star Cave Evergreene
2012 New Deli Evergreene
2013, Oct 1 New Songs From the Old Country Evergreene

References

  1. ↑ Farber, Jim. "Jim Farber's top ten in music for the week of Feb. 12". NY Daily News. Retrieved 18 September 2013. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Friskics-Warren, Bill. "TriBeCaStan's 'New Deli': Fusing international jazz and folk". Washington Post. Retrieved 18 September 2013. 
  3. ↑ "TriBeCaStan". Evergreene Music. Retrieved 18 September 2013. 
  4. ↑ Slawecki, Chris M. "TriBeCaStan: New Deli (2012)". allaboutjazz.com. Retrieved 18 September 2013. 
  5. ↑ Maurer, Daniel. "Watch Violent Femmes Frontman 'Save the Village' With 'Blister in the Sun'". East Village Local - New York Times. Retrieved 18 September 2013. 
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Morrow, Scott. "This Week's Best Albums: January 10, 2012". Alarm Magazine. Retrieved 18 September 2013. 
  7. ↑ "TriBeCaStan". Roots World. Retrieved 18 September 2013. 
  8. ↑ "New Release from Little Known Government of TriBeCaStan: Capital New Deli Found to Have Irregular Time-Space Continuum". Rock Paper Scissors. Retrieved 27 September 2013. 
  9. ↑ Spanos, Brittany. "The 10 Best Concerts in New York This Weekend, 9/27/13". The Village Voice. Retrieved 27 September 2013. 


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